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27 Yong Siak Street

📍 27 YONG SIAK STREET
🗺️ D03 — Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra
🏢 MCST 1492Apartment✓ Management Directory

About 27 Yong Siak Street

27 Yong Siak Street (Singapore 168654) is a walk-up apartment address in the conserved pre-war part of Tiong Bahru, in postal District 3 (Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra). OneMap places it within Tiong Bahru Estate, the flats built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) between 1936 and 1941. It is a strata development under MCST 1492. The completion year for this block could not be verified.

These flats are unusual in Singapore: built as public rental housing, later sold to their occupants, and now privately held strata homes inside a conservation area. That history explains why a 1930s SIT block has a management corporation at all.

Interesting facts

  • The pre-war flats were rented out until March 1965, when the Housing and Development Board began selling them to sitting tenants. Infopedia records that 823 flats were offered.

  • During the Second World War the estate was hit by bombing, and a large share of its post-war residents are thought to have moved in during the Occupation.

  • The SIT added 1,258 post-war flats on the other side of the estate by 1954. Those remain ordinary HDB blocks, unlike the pre-war ones.

  • URA conserved 20 pre-war blocks, numbered 55 to 82, in 2003 after public consultation. It was the first public housing estate to receive conservation status.

  • Yong Siak Street is one of the four boundaries URA gives for the conservation area, with Outram Road, Seng Poh Road and the Central Expressway.

Nearby

Tiong Bahru MRT (East-West Line) is roughly ten minutes' walk. Havelock MRT (Thomson-East Coast Line), opened in November 2022, is about the same distance via Zion Road. Tiong Bahru Market and hawker centre, Seng Poh Garden and the Tiong Bahru Community Centre, which opened in 1951 as Singapore's first, are all a short walk. Zhangde Primary School is on Jalan Membina.

Key facts

  • Address: 27 Yong Siak Street, Tiong Bahru Estate, Singapore 168654

  • District: 3 (Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra)

  • Property type: Walk-up apartments in a conserved pre-war SIT block

  • Completed: Estate built 1936 to 1941; year for this block not verified

  • Developer: Singapore Improvement Trust

  • Tenure: Pre-war Tiong Bahru flats are reported to be on 99-year leases dating from the mid-1960s; not verified for this block

  • Nearest MRT: Tiong Bahru (EW17), Havelock (TE16)

  • MCST: 1492